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Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
Larry Kramer

Meaning of "death threat" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEATH THREAT

death threat  [dɛθ θrɛt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEATH THREAT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Death threat is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DEATH THREAT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Death threat

A death threat is a threat, often made anonymously, by one person or a group of people to kill another person or groups of people. These threats are often designed to intimidate victims in order to manipulate their behavior, thus a death threat can be a form of coercion. For example, a death threat could be used to dissuade a public figure from pursuing a criminal investigation or an advocacy campaign. In many jurisdictions, death threats are a criminal offense. Death threats are often covered by coercion statutes. For instance, the coercion statute in Alaska says: A person commits the crime of coercion if the person compels another to engage in conduct from which there is a legal right to abstain or abstain from conduct in which there is a legal right to engage, by means of instilling in the person who is compelled a fear that, if the demand is not complied with, the person who makes the demand or another may inflict physical injury on anyone....

Definition of death threat in the English dictionary

The definition of death threat in the dictionary is a threat to kill someone.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEATH THREAT


amourette
ˌæmʊəˈrɛt
arret
əˈrɛt
bachelorette
ˌbætʃələˈrɛt
barrette
bəˈrɛt
buret
bjʊˈrɛt
chevrette
ʃəˈvrɛt
cigarette
ˌsɪɡəˈrɛt
counterthreat
ˈkaʊntəˌθrɛt
curette
kjʊəˈrɛt
fleuret
flʊəˈrɛt
fret
frɛt
leatherette
ˌlɛðəˈrɛt
majorette
ˌmeɪdʒəˈrɛt
minaret
ˌmɪnəˈrɛt
regret
rɪˈɡrɛt
ret
rɛt
Siret
sɪˈrɛt
threat
θrɛt
tret
trɛt
vinaigrette
ˌvɪneɪˈɡrɛt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEATH THREAT

death mask
death metal
death notice
death penalty
death rate
death rattle
death ray
death roll
death row
death seat
death sentence
death squad
death tax
death throes
death toll
death tourist
death trap
Death Valley
death warrant
death wish

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEATH THREAT

Alexander the Great
Alfred the Great
beat a retreat
Charles the Great
Dutch treat
Dutch-treat
great
heat-treat
hereat
ill-treat
maltreat
mistreat
overeat
Peter the Great
pretreat
retreat
security threat
treat
trick or treat
whereat

Synonyms and antonyms of death threat in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «death threat» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEATH THREAT

Find out the translation of death threat to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of death threat from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «death threat» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

死亡威胁
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

amenaza de muerte
570 millions of speakers

English

death threat
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मौत की धमकी
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

تهديد بالقتل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

угроза смерти
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ameaça de morte
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মৃত্যুর হুমকি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

menace de mort
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ancaman kematian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Todesdrohung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

殺しの脅迫
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

죽음 의 위협
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ancaman pati
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mối đe dọa chết
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மரண அச்சுறுத்தல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मृत्यूची धमकी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ölüm tehdidi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

minaccia di morte
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

groźba śmierci
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

загроза смерті
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

amenințare cu moartea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απειλή θανάτου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

doodsdreigement
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dödshot
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

drapstrusler
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of death threat

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEATH THREAT»

The term «death threat» is regularly used and occupies the 89.843 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEATH THREAT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about death threat

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QUOTES WITH «DEATH THREAT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word death threat.
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Larry Kramer
Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEATH THREAT»

Discover the use of death threat in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to death threat and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fatwa: Living with a death threat
She had to escape with her two little girls but how? This tense story never quite ends. Even now, Jacky is living in the shadow of a death threat. A fatwa is issued legitimately under Islamic law to a Muslim woman who leaves her husband.
Jacky Trevane, 2013
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Death Threat
When someone begins terrorizing the students participating in the upcoming teen science fair, Mollie Fox is determined to find a link between the person pulling pranks and her friend Janet's "accidental" death. Original.
Peter Nelson, 1993
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Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition - Updated ...
Death threat was defined as the extent to which an individual's system of “ personal constructs” is structured to anticipate death. If you need to substantially reorganize your core beliefs to accommodate the possibility of your own death, you ...
Stuart A. Vyse, 2013
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Death Anxiety Handbook: Research, Instrumentation, and ...
Tobacyk concluded that traditional religious beliefs, unlike paranormal beliefs, have the institutionalized social support system needed to decrease death threat. Other researchers, however, have reached conflicting conclusions about the role  ...
Robert A. Neimeyer, 1994
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The 13 Serious Death Threats to Your Websites:
Table of Contents Overview and Introduction 4 Death Threat #1 - Server Timeouts / Downtimes 5 Death Threat # 2 - Server Crashes/Hardware Failures/ Meltdowns 6 Death Threat #3 - Server Software Problems 7 Death Threat #4 - Datacenter ...
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Personal Meanings of Death: Applications of Personal ...
If a major function of paranormal beliefs is to reduce death threat, these findings suggest that only traditional religious beliefs may be effective in this regard. Further, the magnitude of the correlation between traditional religious beliefs scores ...
Franz R. Epting, Robert A. Neimeyer, 1984
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Survival: Self & Country, Wwii: Combat Adventures of a B24 ...
24 NEAR DEATH THREAT #1 POTENTIAL ROLLOVER CAR ACCIDENT ............ . . 36 NEAR DEATH THREAT #2 NEAR DROWNING IN GULF OF MEXICO .......... .. 118 NEAR DEATH THREAT #3 LOST IN TRAINING FLIGHT IN STORM .
Bruce Galvin Craig, 2011
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Personal Construct Psychology in Clinical Practice: Theory, ...
If Threat Index scores are a valid measure of death threat, they might also be expected to show some relationship with religious belief, and there is some evidence that this is so: low death threat has been linked with frequent churchgoing, ...
David Winter, 2013
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Death Threats and Violence: New Research and Clinical ...
Certain characteristics and behaviors of victims may increase their risk of receiving a death threat. This chapter discusses victim characteristics, the psychosocial impact of death threats, and the prevention of death threats made against ...
Stephen J. Morewitz, 2008
10
The Rosemary Nelson Inquiry Report
22.36 For some time there was doubt about whether the death threat note had in fact been sent by the NIO with the original correspondence. The NIO official was convinced that it had; the Superintendent from Command Secretariat was ...
‎2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEATH THREAT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term death threat is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lawmakers warned about death threat tied to passage of vaccine bill
California lawmakers and their security officers have been warned to keep an eye out for a man who was arrested last week after he ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
2
Al Potter charged with aggravated assault, uttering death threat in …
A St. John's man recently acquitted of assault after a high-profile trial that had links to motorcycle clubs and allegations of witness intimidation is ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
3
'Sherlock's Last Case' at Charity Randall Theatre produces …
A death threat has been delivered to Holmes, and the bearer of the message is the daughter of the late Professor James Moriarty. Unfazed, but ... «Tribune-Review, Jul 15»
4
Boko Haram Allegedly Sends Death Threat E-mail To Thisday Editor
The death threat was issued to him after his return from Adamawa state to investigate killings by the insurgents and the plight of Internally Displaced Persons ... «360Nobs.com, Jul 15»
5
Blogger, Journalist in Death Threat
E-Bangladesh Desk News: Threat UK Based Bangladeshi journalist, blogger, cultural activist Juyel Raaj got death threat for his blogging ... «E Bangladesh, Jul 15»
6
Death threat made against priest
WALSENBURG — Police here are investigating an alleged death threat phone call against an African priest at a local Catholic church. «Pueblo Chieftain, Jul 15»
7
Tomah man accused of Obama death threat
LA CROSSE — A 55-year-old Tomah man is being detained in a mental health facility after authorities say he told a security guard he planned ... «Green Bay Press Gazette, Jul 15»
8
Rogue River Police Receive Death Threat
ROGUE RIVER, Ore. -- Rogue River Police Department received a death threat in the mail Wednesday. The note was handwritten with a pencil. «KDRV, Jul 15»
9
Sand Smugglers Arrested for Issuing Death Threat to Police
VILLUPURAM: Two sand-smugglers, who allegedly issued death threats to policemen and claimed to have political clout, were arrested by the ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
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Court Denies Appeal for Rights Worker in Death Threat Case
The Appeal Court on Friday upheld a Phnom Penh Municipal Court decision to throw out the case of an NGO staffer who claims his life was ... «The Cambodia Daily, Jul 15»

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